Beijing: An anti-terrorism law society, one of the few in China specialising in the study of anti-terrorism law, was established on Saturday in China's Yunnan province.
Based in the law school of Yunnan University, the organisation is expected to become a government think tank, Xinhua quoted society head Qiao Hanrong as saying.
In March, Yunnan saw a group of knife-wielding assailants attack civilians at a railway station in the provincial capital of Kunming, which left 31 people dead and 141 injured.
"Terrorism has become the most severe crisis of social management the Chinese government faces, but legal studies in the field are relatively weak. Law enforcement departments and academic institutions do not interact," said Qiao.
"We hope the society will play a key role in building a scientific, effective and rigorous anti-terrorism mechanism in China," he said.
China does not yet have an anti-terrorism law.
An official with the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, said China will draft an anti-terrorism law during next year's NPC session in March if the fight against terrorism requires it.
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